A new technique dubbed "Zombie ZIP" helps conceal payloads in compressed files specially created to avoid detection from security solutions such as antivirus and endpoint detection and response (EDR) ...

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Is this a virus?: Classic ZIP bombs and other archive-based tricks have long given cybercriminals a convenient way to sneak malware onto unsuspecting systems. A newly documented technique claims to go ...

IntroductionIn January 2026, Zscaler ThreatLabz observed activity by a suspected Iran-nexus threat actor targeting government officials in Iraq. ThreatLabz discovered previously undocumented malware ...

New hacking cluster exploits web servers and Mimikatz to infiltrate Asian infrastructure for long-term espionage in aviation, ...

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Hackers can change a single byte to insert malware undetected, posing as an apparently corrupted ZIP file dubbed Zombie Zip. A security researcher demonstrated this by tricking Windows Defender and ...

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Use linux, and have bzip2 and brotli installed. If you're on Windows, I'd greatly appreciate some help on getting this to work. I'm not even sure that it won't work since I don't have Windows! One ...

The Efimer malware campaign is hijacking Google SEO to drain the crypto wallets of Oscar fans hunting for free movies, Cybernews researchers found.